The Allocation of Ambulance to Emergency Centers with the Help of Simulation Techniques Case Study: Birjand City

Abstract

Providing timely and quick medical services to patients and injured people reduces death statistics and increases the satisfaction of the people. This article uses an applied research in which it has been tried to improve the current situation and provide some measures for optimal and appropriate allocation of emergency facilities and number of ambulances available in each base in transportation section of Birjand. In this article Birjand was divided into 15 regions and given the 5 emergency sections available in the city of Birjand and the time interval between regions and centers of the simulation and problem solving was done by the use of MATLAB programming software and finally appropriate allocation was done so that shortest possible time to provide health care services was provided. Information on this study was obtained from the medical emergencies of Birjand.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4S2p76